Yorkshire Cloud
#bac3cc
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#bac3cc
RGB
186, 195, 204
OKLCh
81.3% 0.016 248.0°
CIELAB (D50)
78.3, -1.9, -5.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 16% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.0; on black, Lc -69.7. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 11.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#6f7880 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bac3cc
protanopia
#c2c2cc · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#c0c0cc · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#bfbfe3 · ΔE00 11.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Dolphin at ΔE00 0.692: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue DolphinΔE00 0.692 · #bcc5cf
- Steampunk GreyΔE00 0.908 · #b8c0c8
- IcebreakerΔE00 0.928 · #b7c2cc
- Cemetery AshΔE00 1.451 · #c0c7d0
- Misty Morning DewΔE00 1.523 · #bac1cc
- IcyΔE00 1.587 · #bbc7d2
- Driftwood BluesΔE00 1.592 · #b6c1c8
- Stainless SteelΔE00 1.613 · #b4bdc7
- KinderΔE00 1.727 · #b8bfca
- Pre SchoolΔE00 1.733 · #b5c2cd
- Winter WonderlandΔE00 1.778 · #b3bfc8
- Bay of HopeΔE00 1.829 · #bfc9d0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.